WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

dctrlmbvlp This moving is amazing. I liked watching it, and personally, as a student learning Mandarin Chinese, i enjoyed picking up bits of the language. However, this movie is not something you want to watch after a bad day at school, or when tissues are scarce. The ending is not very happy, and leaves you wanting a "just kidding" sign at the end, followed by a better conclusion. while watching this movie I cried and my soul poured out my eyes. My DVD player is broken now from water damage, and I have no idea what happened to all the kitchen knives. Please be careful.

Mike B The subject of this movie is noble. It's about a woman whose husband is incarcerated for many years in China's version of the Gulag. She suffers brain damage at the hand of Chinese police thugs and is unable to recognize her husband when he does return. This should have been a good movie on an interesting subject. It wasn't. It faded after the first hour – and that's being generous. Here's what went wrong – It becomes repetitive – we are taken to the train station over and over as the woman awaits her husband. He is with her when this is done. He tries various mechanisms to achieve recognition. This is done over and over again – we got the message after the first couple of tries. It becomes a very boring version of the old Bill Murray "Ground Hog Day".Speaking of the word "boring" the film becomes this. It has no energy whatsoever. There is absolutely no humour at all – two solid excruciating hours of grimness and glumness. The story becomes claustrophobic. In the same room, with the same people having the same conversations, trying so desperately to make this woman remember the past. Too much of the same old thing.

bearofmcc I'm disappointed in IMDb's tone-deafness in listing the Chinese names in reverse order, Westernized with family names last. For example, world famous, remarkable actress Gong Li is inexplicably listed here as Li Gong.The film itself, by great director Zhang Yimou (not Yimou Zhang), is a powerfully intimate story of a family broken by the Cultural Revolution. It offers just enough subtle orientation to facts and culture to draw me into the core of its story about three people struggling to sort our pain and confusion. It's a very beautiful and painful film.

Depp Zhang The movie is moving,it conveys such emotions we are losing now.it seems that Yimou Zhang has critical thinking about that period history of 1970s.I don't know how many films Zhang used the stories of the period ,but here Coming Home a new one,an awesome one! Gong Li and Chen Daoming's performance is wonderful,they truly expressed the emotions two lovers should have. When the movie was on,it got good reviews and was highly recommended! It worth it! The main audience are the old who experienced the history. Maybe Zhang hopes more young go to watch the movie ,because he wants people born in nearly years to know the story and get something from it and remember . I think we should get to know the history and remember it